NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in Israel to show solidarity with the country’s citizens facing Hamas rocket and missile attacks from Hamas, and for the IDF’s military operation in Gaza.
He criticized Hamas terrorists for using Gaza’s civilians as human shields. by locating command centers in densely populated areas and firing missles from such locations.
Bloomberg also experienced a Hamas rocket attack from Gaza first-hand when Sderot’s public address system warned of an incoming attack. “Get inside now! Move!” the mayor was told by Israeli security and his own security detail.
On Saturday, Bloomberg told Ashkelon’s mayor that he and most “Americans…think that Israel is doing the right thing in defending itself. It has a responsibility to defend the citizens.”
